softball

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Arioto joined Team USA in 2011. Ten years later, the 2012 Pac-12 Player of the Year got the chance to play for gold with softball back on the Olympic docket.

Though the Sooners added another trophy to their collection, all softball teams should have won something in the WCWS — a chance for something better.

Ole ole, ole ole, softball players do not always swing the other way. Like all stereotypes, the lesbian label deeply affects all softball players.

Cal improved to 7-10 in Pac-12 play and 33-13 overall thanks to six consecutive conference wins in the series against Utah and Stanford. Stanford is now tied for last place in the conference with a 2-16 conference record and is 22-26 overall.

Against last place Utah, Cal softball picked up three important wins to improve its conference record and stay in the postseason hunt.

Both Friday and Saturday’s games were postponed because of Seattle’s dreary weather, so the series was shortened from three games to two, and the games were ultimately scheduled to be played Sunday.

ASU enters the series scorching hot, having just knocked off No. 1 Washington twice in a three-game series last week in Tempe, Arizona.

In No. 16 Cal softball’s Pac-12 opening series, the team dropped two of three games on the road at Oregon State this weekend. The Bears flexed their muscles at the plate but struggled to keep pace with the Beavers’ hot offense at times, falling to 24-5 on the season.

Now owners of a 15-1 record, the No. 15 Cal softball set their sights on yet another tournament in Honolulu, Hawaii.